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Data.Gov To Launch In May

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Technology, Transparency

Yet another step towards the goal to make the government’s actions more transparent than any other time in our history…

“In late May, Data.gov will launch, in what US CIO Vivek Kundra calls an attempt to ensure that all government data ‘that is not restricted for national security reasons can be made public’ through data feeds. This appears to be a tremendous expansion on (and an official form of) third-party products like the Sunlight Labs API.

Of course, it is still a far cry from ‘open sourcing‘ the actual decision-making processes of government. Wired has launched a wiki for calling attention to datasets that should be shared as part of the Data.gov plan, and an article on O’Reilly discusses the importance of making this information easily accessible.”

A brief aside…

It’s news like this that makes me get my back up when folks talk about how he’s going to turn this country into a dictatorship, police state, etc. Because they obviously aren’t paying attention to what’s actually being done by the administration. Hopefully at some point they will.

(Found on Slashdot, via Twitter)

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One Response to “Data.Gov To Launch In May”

Jimmy the Dhimmi Says:
April 5th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
Maybe they will retroactively post the dozen-or-so bills that Obama signed into law for the five days he promised the public would be able to read them before he signed them into law.

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